Surgical volume and postoperative mortality rate at a referral hospital in Western Uganda: Measuring the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery indicators in low-resource settings

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 161, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1710-1719

  Anderson, Geoffrey A ^a,b   Ilcisin, Lenka ^b   Abesiga, Lenard ^c   Mayanja, Ronald ^c   Portal Benetiz, Noralis ^c   Ngonzi, Joseph ^c   Kayima, Peter ^c   Shrime, Mark G ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL SURGERY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; UGANDA; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POVERTY; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UGANDA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85014099124     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2017.01.009     Document Type: Article

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